Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I know people wish to achieve this but it will not happen of its own accord. Passing the Act will turn out to be the easy part of this. The Minister said it would take two years to prepare the plan. This will take us to 2024. I believe it will be impossible to achieve it by 2030 unless we start now. There are some obvious measures that do not need two years to plan. What has already been done in anticipation of the Bill to increase the number of people who will be capable of doing their business through Irish? There is no point in advertising the jobs if people are not there. Has the Minister had a serious talk with the Minister with responsibility for higher education on the need to provide more courses through Irish and in Irish at third level to ensure there will be qualified people to provide the services and we will not once again hit a wall and state we will not achieve it?

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